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Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
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- fsflover 1y ago> The unix philosophy cries out: is this the end of Linux (or, as many are calling it, GNU plus Linux)? I still see no counterarguments here. Meanwhile, systemd, like cancer, is eating Linux from the inside, breaking its flexibility and therefore future resilence: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hard_dependencies_on_systemd https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hard_dependencies_on_systemd https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889792
- PaulHoule 1y agoI've come around. And I used to be a serious djb cultist who used https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html for any service I ran that I cared about or was responsible for (not shovelware that came with the Linux distro.) Of course I liked qmail too and used it to build something that's nearly indescribable but was kinda like a webcrawler but for email and could send and receive emails to do information gathering and dissemination tasks asynchronously over a long time.
- d00mB0t 1y agoYeah, OK. The same way Windows has been a success I guess.
- chasil 1y agoI would be less anxious on the question if another OS adopted it. It is fantastic for Linux, but it is not really portable. I think there was an attempt at OpenBSD. https://lobste.rs/s/jx3cr6/initware_systemd_fork_runs_on_openbsd_for https://lobste.rs/s/jx3cr6/initware_systemd_fork_runs_on_ope...
- RGBCube 1y agoYes, this is indeed a problem. I'd love systemd running on OpenBSD/others, and wouldn't need to create a new init system if it did. There needs to be one cross platform one that's capable.